Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/January 2010

...that New Jersey Route 31 and Utah State Route 38 were both renumbered from "Route 69" due to sign theft that resulted from the sexual meaning of the number 69?
... that New Jersey Route 88 was referred to in the Bruce Springsteen song "Spirit in the Night"?
... that Washington State Route 231 is almost 9 miles (14 km) longer than its "parent" route, Washington State Route 23?
... the creator of the sculpture Metaphor: The Tree of Utah (pictured) was inspired by the long, straight, desolate stretch of Interstate 80 across the Bonneville Salt Flats?
...that what is now U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey was originally chartered as the White Horse Pike in 1854, a turnpike that was to run from Camden to Stratford and eventually to Atlantic City?